A. I’m continuing to update my Academic CV (PDF) whose latest version integrates for the first time 1998-2003 corpus material I wrote for the former Disinformation site (who I worked for in 1998-2008 as an offshore contractor). I’m also repopulating & adding to a relaunched Academia.edu profile (I may get to ResearchGate again in the future).
B. Today’s Open Yale Course is Capitalism: Success, Crisis, Reform (2009) created by Professor Douglas W. McRae.
C. Robinhood Markets is moving heavily into market-making for prediction markets (Bloomberg). Selling shovels is a safer strategy to be profitable during a digital gold rush. It also signals the success of anarchist strains of political philosophy (Harpers Magazine). The political scientist Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (New York University) foresaw this in his popularisation of game theory, notably his book Prediction (New York: Vintage, 2011) which I saw him speak at an International Studies Association annual convention in Toronto, Canada in 2014.
D. George Mason University Professor Alex Tabarrok (Faculty page) has written at Marginal Revolution on the recently launched Scholar Data that tracks the S-index metric for high-quality scientific data that can be shared (National Institutes of Health challenge & outcome). This looks promising—and could be readily applied to other research fields.
E. Professor Sergey Ivanov (University of the District of Columbia) has useful website resources and a YouTube channel of lectures and talks on organisational psychology. His conceptual framework of ‘fearocracy’ (rule by fear) is very relevant as macroeconomic and business cycle conditions get worse, inflation rises, and volatility spikes.
F. MIT Professor Vipin Narang (website, CV) has a great podcast interview with Dr Michael Green of the United States Studies Centre. They discuss Professor Narang’s research program, his insights on nuclear posture and great power politics, why he became interested in nuclear strategy, and his PhD and Early Career Academic experiences (which involved the importance of mentors, networks, and luck). Harvard University conferred Professor Narang’s PhD dissertation Posturing For Peace: The Sources and Deterrence Consequences of Regional Power Nuclear Postures in 2010 (PDF). It’s a great interview, complete with tips on how to transition from academia to working in government and the public service - and why you might consider this as a possible future career trajectory or pathway.